House-Museum of Classical Estonian Literature by A. H. Tammsaare

The house-museum of classic Estonian literature Anton Hansen Tammsaare is located in the village of Esto-Sadok on Krasnaya Polyana in the Adler district of Sochi. The village was founded in 1886 by immigrants from Estonia. The museum was opened in 1988 in the house of Vaarmans, in whose house the famous Estonian novelist lived in 1912. The museum is a branch of the State Literary and Memorial Museum of N. Ostrovsky, located in Sochi.

The center of the museum exposition is the memorial room of the classics of Estonian literature. It was in it that he created his essays on Estonian immigrants in the Caucasus, wrote the philosophical story “Boy and Butterfly”, the novel “The Master of the Manor of Kyrboy”, translated the works of F.M. Dostoevsky into Estonian. The exposition of the museum presents documents and photographs, household utensils and clothes, ancient books, folk instruments. All these exhibits tell about the stay of Tamsaare in Krasnaya Polyana, about the life of Estonian settlers in the Caucasus, illustrate the history of the village of Esto-Sadok.